Sentences with phrase «few redeeming»

Stated another way, these kids at minimum can find a few redeeming qualities in the rejected parent.

ZUI has a few redeeming qualities — the ROM offers the Google Now Launcher as default, and that means you get an app drawer.

Games like Adam's Venture or The Last Tinker have few redeeming qualities to them.

It has few redeeming qualities and I can not bear to watch it again.

Despite a few redeeming qualities though, Richard and Alice is a disappointing experience that doesn't provide a lot of entertainment, and doesn't seem to be saying much that is worth listening to in the end.

Very few redeeming qualities.

Apart from the motion capture and the commentary there are very few redeeming qualities of Sydney 2000, and it only serves to continue the tradition of bad Olympic Video Games.

I will acknowledge that while I think there are better alternative solutions to money storage while traveling than money belts, they do have a few redeeming qualities.

A true anti-hero with few redeeming qualities, and I loved every word of it!

I am only 2/3 through the book but the younger generation certainly seems to have few redeeming qualities so gfar in the story.

I try to keep an open mind each time I drive a new car, but I still had preconceptions that the 2012 Hyundai Accent would be a cheap, boring car with few redeeming qualities.

The 2013 Lexus GX 460 is a behemoth to drive, but the Premium trim I drove had a few redeeming qualities, specifically space and upscale extras including a heated steering wheel and power - folding third row.

In fact, the female characters have so few redeeming qualities — even Mamet's lively Shoshanna resorts to some bad behavior this season — that it's a wonder how the audience is supposed to keep rooting for them.

In a similar fashion, viewers will have to look past this film's flaws and lock on those few redeeming qualities in order to appreciate this story.

There are very few redeeming qualities about him.

There are a few redeeming features to the game, however.

Very few redeeming qualities.

Its failures likewise stem from centering on a criminal with few redeeming qualities.

Despite the intriguing premise, the predictable plot and abundance of corn entirely grates away the film's few redeeming qualities.

Even the few redeeming aspects like Armie Hammer «s endearing performance and director Gore Verbinski «s skill at putting together set pieces can't stop the film from feeling like being dragged through the desert rather than a rousing ride through canyons and vistas.

It is a cruelly violent film, in which I could find few redeeming aspects.

The much - trumpeted, fictionalized account of the rise (and fall, and rise again) of Microsoft and Apple Computer, airing Sunday on TNT, presents both the turtlenecked CEO and Mr. Bill as thieves and jerks with few redeeming features, so if by chance you're a devoted fan of either one, be prepared.

The robots are cute and the awareness of nature a decent intention, but beyond that the film just has very few redeeming qualities.

Real - life Boston «Southie» Wahlberg proves that his daffy turn in I Heart Huckabees (one of the few redeeming values of that mess) was on par for him — his righteous, scathing Dignam is one of the movie's prime delights.

VERY BAD THINGS looks like an Ensemble movie with very few redeeming qualities, other than Beautiful Cameron, Nicholson-esque Slater, and always amusing Piven.

Constantine is a dull, monotonous shooter with few redeeming features, do yourself a favour and buy some of the superb graphic novels instead.

Of course it would take more than a small independent film to truly set Washington apart from the pack, and many saw her performance in the 2001 romantic drama Save the Last Dance as one of the few redeeming qualities in the otherwise forgettable teen drama.

While I couldn't recommend this game to anyone not looking for a slow - paced grindfest, Black Sigil has a few redeeming aspects if you're able to stomach its encounter rate.

Winter has very few redeeming qualities.

That said, those were two of the very few redeeming moments of Hernanes» first season in Turin.

Surely United must have improved since last season, which had so few redeeming features?

One of the few redeeming features about the way Arsenal have stuttered, started and stopped so far this season is that, apart from Chelsea, none of our big Premier League rivals were punishing us.

It's got far fewer redeeming features than Whole Foods would have you think.

From the capture, there is the chase, and then the romance which is unorthodox to say the least, all taking place as the sadistic Strickland displays fewer and fewer redeeming qualities.

Not exact matches

This newcomer to the points - and - miles world offers double miles on all purchases, and offers a few different ways to redeem those miles, including — like Chase and Amex — transferring them to a few airline frequent flyer programs.

This is mostly because only a select few credit card issuers allow rewards points to directly be redeemed for Airbnb stays.

When you want to redeem the points you have earned, there are a few different ways to choose.

You can redeem as many or as few points as you desire on your next purchase.

I think most people will earn less by redeeming fewer points at once.

Like the $ 95 - a-year Sapphire Preferred, you can transfer your points on a 1:1 basis or redeem for 1.5 cents each, but you get a few extra perks along the way:

Over the next few days, $ 3,268 worth of cash equivalents will be redeemed and the proceeds will be used to purchase roughly 100 shares of the Vanguard MSCI EAFE ETF.

Of course, very few couples — at least the ones I know — fall in love to redeem the erotic or build a viable social order.

I will come back to this point later, but here we only need affirm what St. Paul and St. John so strongly affirm, contrary to the Gnostic - Hellenic - Hindu tradition, and in the true spirit of the Hebrew Scriptures: that the whole creation — not just a few human souls — has been redeemed and reconciled in Christ.

At that instant of time when I gave all up to him to do with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should rule over me at his pleasure, redeeming love broke into my soul with repeated scriptures, with such power that my whole soul seemed to be melted down with love; the burden of guilt and condemnation was gone, darkness was expelled, my heart humbled and filled with gratitude, and my whole soul, that was a few minutes ago groaning under mountains of death, and crying to an unknown God for help, was now filled with immortal love, soaring on the wings of faith, freed from the chains of death and darkness, and crying out, My Lord and my God; thou art my rock and my fortress, my shield and my high tower, my life, my joy, my present and my everlasting portion.

Still, it seemed worth voicing a few protests, even if only a debiliori: that the biblical imagery of the redeemed state is cosmic in scope and positively teeming with fauna (lions lying down with lambs and such)-- that Paul's vision of salvation in Romans 8 is of the entirety of creation restored and glorified — things of that sort.

yes we know he had a howler in the CL and a few others that could have cost us... Everyman who comes to realize his shortcomings must be given a chance at some point in time to redeem himself....

It takes so few points to redeem for these great short haul fights, and I just checked my balance and discovered I'm * this close * to another one!

A few years ago I was gifted a Fandango giftcard and wondered how to redeem them since I already had an AMC card.

This allows New York to redeem itself from the ignominious status of place dead last in turnout nationwide this year and in the nation with fewer voters going to the polls than in any midterm election for at least three decades.

The new guidance includes recommendations such as issuing «delayed prescriptions» that people are advised not to redeem unless a minor ailment lasts more than a few days.